Automate 2023 | Automate Show | 22 May 2023 | Huntington Place Convention Center, 1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, US

Automate is the largest and most inspiring showcase of automation in North America. It’s the best place to discover powerful solutions—from innovations in AI and robotics to tried-and-true workhorse technologies—that will solve your unique challenges and propel you forward. Plus, the Automate show is free for all to attend. Why wait? Make your move today.

2023 Speakers

Chris Aden
Sr. Director of AI Solutions, LMI Technologies

Paul Aiello
Executive Director, FANUC America Corporation

Josh Alphonse
Vice President – Electronics, US Robotics and Automation, ABB Robotics

James Anderson
Digital Business Consultant - Vision and Quality Control, SICK

Gerard Andrews
Product Marketing Manager, Robotics, NVIDIA

Juan Luis Aparicio
VP of Product, Rapid Robotics

Murat Atalay
Director of Customer Engagement and Solutions, Outsight

Suprateek Banerjee
Standards Manager Robotics and Automation, VDMA e.V.

Bryan Bird
Regional President, US/Canada, Universal Robots

Robert Bollinger
Owner, Dynamic Horizons Automation Solutions LLC

Ilian Bonev
Cofounder, Mecademic

Brent Bregar
Technologist, Premier Automation

David Bruce
Engineering Manager, FANUC America

John Bubnikovich
U.S. Country Lead Robotics & Discrete Automation, ABB Robotics

Thomas J. Burke
Global Strategic Advisor, CC Link Partner Association (CLPA)

Ricardo Burnanello
SVP, IoT Platforms, Telit IoT Solutions Inc.

David Bursell
Vice President of Business Development, MoviTHERM Advanced Thermography Solutions

Chris Caldwell
Product Manager, Yaskawa Motoman

Joe Campbell
Head of Strategic Marketing, Universal Robots

Tiffany Cappellari
Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute

Jeff Cardenas
CEO, Apptronik

Debejyo Chakraborty
Staff Researcher, General Motors Global Research and Development

Romik Chatterjee
VP Business Development, Graftek Imaging

Natalie Chmiko
SVP, Small Business Solutions, Michigan Economic Development Corporation

Mike Cicco
President and CEO, FANUC America Corporation

Michael Clark
Director OPC Foundation North America, OPC Foundation

Annmarie Danko
Automation Teacher, Stevenson High School

Georgy Das
Director of Systems and Training, Midwest Optical Systems

James Davidson
Chief Architect, MiR

David Dechow
Owner, Machine Vision Source, LLC

Dale Deering
Senior Director, Business Development, Teledyne DALSA

Tim DeGrasse
Senior Channel Development Manager, Universal Robots

Mike DeRosier
Business Development / Safety Manager, Advent Design Corporation

Heidi Devroy
CEO, Prosper-Tech Machine & Tool LLC

Paul DeWys
Owner / Sales Engineer, Forerunner 3D Printing

Jan Diekmann
Technical Account Manager, Ericsson

Aaron Donlon
Product Manager, Epson Robots

Kyle Drummer
General Manager, Lincoln Electric Automation

Gene Edielman
Co-Founder, Azure Printed Homes

Heiko Eisele
President, MVTec USA

Martin H. Ettenberg
CEO/President, Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc.

Peter Finn
Managing Director, TD Cowen

Jeff Fryman
Principal Consultant, JDF Consulting Enterprises, Ltd.

Ryan Gariepy
CTO / Co-Founder, Clearpath/OTTO Motors

Anne Gielczyk
Vice President, Nocti Business Solutions

Anthony Gillespie
Territory Sales Manager, SCHUNK

Joseph Giordano
Managing Director, TD Cowen

Adam Gluck
Founder & CEO, Copia Automation

Ed Goffin
Senior Manager, Marketing, Pleora Technologies

Andrew Gollach
Principal, SOSV

Armando Gonzalez
Business Leader of AMR/Robotics for North America, Bosch Rexroth Corporation

Harley Green
Director of Business Development, Soft Robotics Inc

Steven Green
VP Industrial Markets, Kinova Robotics

Gus Gremillion
Solutions Consultant - Machine Tool Digitalization, Siemens Industry Software Inc.

Blake Griffin
Research Manager, Interact Analysis

Doug Grogg
Regional Sales Manager, Yaskawa

Rajat Gupta
Sr. Director, Business Development - AI & Emerging Technologies, Microsoft

Satyandra Gupta
Chief Scientist, Co-Founder, GrayMatter Robotics

Riley Hall
Director of Product Marketing, Fictiv

Stacey Harimoto
FANUC Engineer, FANUC America Corporation

David Hart
Director Business Development, Manufacturing, Ericsson

Kurt Häusler
CEO Sensors & Automation North America, Photoneo s.r.o.

Martin Hennemann
Product Manager, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH

Eric Hershberger
Applications Engineering, Cognex

Mark Holcomb
Director of Product Management and Application Engineering, Genesis Motion Solutions

Ben Hope
Director of Product Commercialization, SuperTrak CONVEYANCE

Eliot Horowitz
CEO & Founder, Viam

Kristian Hulgard
General Manager, Americas Division, OnRobot

Barbara Humpton
President & CEO, Siemens Corporation USA

Cynthia Hutchison
CEO, US Center of Advanced Manufacturing

Rajesh Iyengar
Chief Executive Officer, Lincode Labs Inc.

Tom Izzo
Head Coach, Michigan State University Men’s Basketball Program

Jeff Johnson
Mechatronics Product Manager, Beckhoff Automation

Geoffrey Karpa
Applications Engineer Staff, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Fouad Khalil
Senior Director, Enterprise Security, Risk and Compliance, Locus Robotics

Steve Kinney
Director of Training, Compliance, and Technical Solutions, Smart Vision Lights

Steffen Klawitter
Digital Enterprise Lead Architect, Siemens Digital Industries

Breann Klug
Execution Manager - CERT Education, FANUC

Tom Knauer
Global Industry Manager – Factory Automation & Robotics, Balluff GmbH

Keith Knight
Market Development Manager, Celera Motion - a division of Novanta

Chris Knorr
VP Business Development, North America, Eclipse Automation part of Accenture

Etienne Lacroix
CEO & Co-Founder, Vention

Mike Lashbrook
Vice President, Digital Solutions, JR Automation

Dr. Daniel L. Lau
Professor, University of Kentucky

Chris Liu
Industrial Edge Product Marketing Manager, Siemens Industry, Inc

Andrew Long
CEO, Cyth Systems

Nick Longworth
Senior Systems Application Engineer - Robot Guidance, SICK, Inc.

Jonathan Marseglia
Director of Financial Strategy and Head of Tax, Formic

Daryl Martin
Technical Sales and Product Specialist, Advanced illumination

Kevin M. McCabe
Senior Application Engineer, IDS Imaging Development Systems Inc.

Sherri McCleary
Executive Director, Penn State

Bob McCurrach
Director of Standards Development, Association For Advancing Automation

Robert McElmurry
Director of Business Intelligence, A3

Shanif Merchant
Chief Product Officer, Numurus

Michael Miller
Senior Manager, Regional Motion Engineering, Yaskawa America, Inc.

Oliver Mitchell
Partner, ff Venture Capital

Pablo Molina
Chairman, CTO, VP of Product & Co-Founder, Avidbots

Greg Morehouse
Vice President, Custom System Sales, Acieta

Abe Murray
General Partner, Alley Robotics Ventures | AlleyCorp

Sean Murray
Vice President of Customer Success, Bright Machines

Tyler Naatz
Senior Application Engineer, 3M

Anne Marie Neatham
Chief Operations Officer, Kindred

Edward Neff
Founder and CEO, SMAC Corporation

Roberta Nelson Shea
Global Technical Compliance Officer, Universal Robots

Aaron Nienaber
Product Development Specialist, 3M Company

Erik Nieves
CEO & Co-Founder, Plus One Robotics

David Northup
Director of Product Management, OTTO Motors

Nivedita Ojha
VP of Product, FORT Robotics

Johannes Olbort
Project Manager II4IP, VDMA e.V.

Elizabeth Onasanya
Senior Investment Analyst, Lockheed Martin Ventures

Kendra Patton
Key Account Manager Americas, Palletizing, Robotiq

Jerry Perez
Executive Director - Global Accounts / Manager Business Development, FANUC America Corporation

Florian Pestoni
CEO & Co-founder, InOrbit

Bernd Raithel
Director Product Management, Siemens Industry Inc.

Brian Regan
Sales Engineer, DINGS' Motion USA

David Reger
CEO and Founder, Neura Robotics GmbH

Johan Reimann
Principal Scientist, AI and Machine Learning, GE Research

Eric Rice
Product Market Manager, Festo Corporation

Silas Robertson
SVP Sales and Marketing, Applied Automation Group

Gregory Robinson
Former Director, NASA, James Webb Space Telescope

Bob Rochelle
Account Manager, Güdel

Aaron Royster
CoLab (Collaborative Laboratory) Manager - Robot EOAT Application Developme, SCHUNK

Ted Rozier
Director of Digital, Advanced Technology and Robotics, FESTO Didactic

Stephen Se
Senior Engineering Manager, Teledyne FLIR - Machine Vision

Nikunj Shah
Development and Certification Manager - Drives, Siemens Industry, Inc.

Alex Shikany
Vice President - Membership & Business Intelligence, Association for Advancing Automation (A3)

Stuart Singer
CEO, Schneider Optics, Inc.

Nicholas Sischka
Director, Imaging Product Development, Edmund Optics

Matthew Slack
Business Development Lead, Oceaneering Mobile Robotics

Eugen Solowjow
Head of Research Group, Siemens

Manuel Sordo
Chief Revenue Officer, Apera AI

Denise Stafford
Business Development Manager, KUKA Robotics

Liz Stortstrom
Application Engineer, HP 3D Printing

Mahesh Sudhakar
AI Software Engineer, Musashi AI

Katie Surkamer
President, 3P Mechatronics Group

Sue Nicole Susenburger
Vice President, Wandelbots USA

Larry Sweet
Director, Engineering, Advanced Robots for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute

Robert Tait
Partner, Optical Metrology Solutions

Daniel Theobald
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Vecna Robotics

Ingrid Tighe
President, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center

Henry Toal
Sales Director, Inxpect

Per Treven
Director Business Development, Manufacturing, Ericsson

Jenny Tuertscher
Vice President Technical Safety, Fortress Safety

Matt Wade
VP of Marketing, BlueBotics

Houssaine Waled
Senior Staff Systems Engineer, KUKA Robotics Corporation

Jason Walker
Vice President of Market Development, Locus Robotics

Perry C. West
President, Automated Vision Systems, Inc.

Matthew Wicks
Sr. Director of Products and Engineering, Zebra-Fetch Robotics

Jim Wiley
Product Manager, Parker Hannifin

Adam Willea
District Manager, FANUC America

James Witherspoon
Product Manager, Zebra Technologies

Rebecca Yeung
Corporate Vice President, Operations Science and Advanced Technology, FedEx Corporation

David Zerkler
Machine Vision Senior Learning Advisor, Zebra

Andrew Zucker
Mechatronics Engineer, Harmonic Drive LLC

2023 Sponsors

• FANUC
• Harmonic Drive
• Michigan Economic Development Corporation
• Oriental Motor
• Phoenix Contact
• Siemens
• Soft Robotics
• TD Cowen
• Unity
• Wauseon Machine
• Zebra
• ABB
• BizLink
• Ericsson